I was partway through elaborating a beautiful theory about how the heavily Christian content in 1 and 2 Nephi and Jacob was either Mormon’s (1) interpolation or (2) his misreading as a result of language change and the drift in the meaning of glyphs or (3) an example of the usual practice of attributing one’s own insights to revered predecessors — when I remembered that Mormon stuck in the Small Plates of Nephi without any editing.

Enjoy some of the wit and wisdom of this former regimental sergeant major, commando, winner of the Victoria Cross, Scottish peer, raconteur, Geneva hotelier, bridge player, Cambridge doctor of mathematics, water colorist, MI6 operative, one-time cricket batman to Lord Mountbatten, majordomo of a sprawling Oahu beachfront estate, veteran of conflicts in the Congo, Korea, New Guinea, India, Kenya, the Suez, North Africa, Monte Cassino, and Palestine, and alleged ghost writer of the novels of Robin Masters.

"I became a student of the ancient art while assisting the French in Indochina."